Whitney Legge
Director/Cinematographer
Whitney Legge is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and cinematographer based in San Francisco. Her film One Thing in Nothing received the President’s Award at Full Frame, won Best Documentary Short at Deep Focus Film Festival, and was published by The Atlantic. Her latest feature documentary, Rodeo Queens, was featured at Visions du Réel. She is currently a 2025 BAVC MediaMaker Connect Resident.
As a cinematographer, her work has screened at SXSW, SFFILM, Camden International Film Festival, and Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, and aired on PBS’s Independent Lens and won Best Cinematographer at the Oakland Short Film Festival for her film Cycles.
She has presented her work at Mount Saint Mary’s University, the California Film Institute Education Program, and TEDx Cape Elizabeth, and has taught documentary filmmaking through the DocLands Education Program.
She holds an MFA in Documentary Film from Stanford University.
Laura Tejero
Producer
Laura Tejero is a documentary producer originally from Madrid, Spain, and currently based in San Francisco. She holds an MFA in Documentary Film from Stanford University and studied Journalism and Audiovisual Communications at Universidad Carlos III. During her years working as a TV Producer for Muzungu Producciones, she researched and coordinated the production of hundreds of news reports and short documentaries for various international TV channels and multimedia platforms. Laura’s 2019 short, “Frida,” is the winner of the 2019 Annual Shorts Challenge at the Annapolis Film Festival and selected for Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Close:Up Edinburgh Docufest 2020, and the Calgary International Film Festival and was featured on the podcast “This American Life.”
Annie Mar
Producer
Annie Marr is a San Francisco-based documentary filmmaker. Her produced and directed works have screened at IDFA, Tribeca, SXSW, AFI Fest, Camden, Big Sky, the United Nations, and on the New York Times Op-Docs channel. Recently, Annie produced and co-edited not even for a moment do things stand still, which won special jury recognition at SXSW 2022 and was acquired by the New York Times. Her first interactive film, Labyrinth, premiered at IDFA in the DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling. She directed death and her compass, about a death doula in rural Maine, which screened at the 2021 Camden International Film Festival and is featured as a Vimeo Staff Pick, and Small Family, Happy Family, about female sterilization and population control in India, which screened at the United Nations and is currently distributed by Documentary Educational Resources. She has also worked as a story producer and associate producer on projects for Netflix and Amazon. She holds an MFA from Stanford University in Documentary Film, and a BA from Dartmouth College in Film/Media Studies and Philosophy.
Sidsel Lønvig Siersted
Co-Producer
Sidsel Lønvig Siersted is an award-winning film producer based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Sidsel has worked on widely distributed and internationally awarded titles such as Nielsson’s Democrats (2014, PBS), Polak’s Something Better to Come (2014, HBO Max), Greenfield’s The Kingmaker (2019, Showtime), Costa’s The Edge of Democracy (2019, Netflix), and Kossakovsky’s Aquarela (2019, Sony Classics). She produced Jepsen’s Natural Disorder, selected for IDFA’s feature length competition 2015 and nominated for a Danish Film Academy Award and Danish Critics Award. Most recently she produced Glob’s Apolonia, Apolonia (HBO Max), which premiered in IDFA's International competition and won IDFA's Best Film Award, 2022.
Darcy Padilla
Creative Producer
Padilla’s honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Open Society Institute Individual Fellowship, Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship, Getty Images Grant, Françoise Demulder Photography Grant, International Photo-reporter Grant, Canon Female Photojournalist Award, World Report Master Award, three World Press Photo Awards (first recipient for Long-Term Projects), and W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. Her photographs exhibited and published internationally: 6Mois, Granta, Le Monde, Stern, The New Yorker. Padilla has worked as a cinematographer with Zocalo Media for a story about Latino Healthcare that aired on Univision and also, About Face, a online platform about PTSD for the Veterans Affairs. Currently, she is working on an experimental documentary film feature, Family Love, a 21 year project that follows one family, examining social issues surrounding poverty. Padilla also worked on a project AIDS In Prison that spanned two years about HIV/AIDS during the height of the epidemic.